Forest Pilot Center Oy offers world class pilot and testing services for the paper, printing and packaging value chains. With the services of FPC, our customers can boost their own business and product development. Our service concept covers all stages of paper manufacture, from base paper through coating and calendering to final printed end products and packages.
Our customers are various players in the graphic business, such as paper and board manufacturers, pigment, chemical and ink suppliers, printing houses, reasearch institutes and universities.
Our values
Confidentiality
Reliability
Customer service
Continuous development
Working together
Safety
New forms of co-operation
With the aim of preserving the competitiveness of the printed media, the FPC pools top experts within the graphic arts industry in a new way. In this respect, the combination of Hansaprint's knowhow in photo processing and printing, Omya's expertise in coating pigments, Nordkalk's knowhow in lime-stone based products, Metso's experience in paper making processes, machinery and equipment, and Ciba's, now a part of BASF, knowledge in functional paper chemicals and binders will bring greater co-ordination to development in the field.